Launch
This is your introduction to the Campus and to the Course. As well as to the contexts and forms relevant for the Fine Art programme. You will be asked to make an impactful and meaningful collaborative project.
What is Fine Art?
As you’re introduced to contemporary art practice, you’ll be asked to be experimental and take risks with your work, in both written and practical forms. You’ll take part in workshops covering art in all forms, from printmaking to photography, painting to woodworking. You’ll also learn how art history, contemporary theory, cultural studies and the wider global world can shed a different light on the work that you make in the studio.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion 1
By exploring what is meant by gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion and social class, you will have the opportunity to explore how dominant culture mindsets contribute to the inclusion or exclusion of individuals or groups, and the ways in which divisive practices of ‘otherness and belonging’ are enacted, questioned and challenged in the context of contemporary Fine Art practices and a wider global arena.
What is Fine Art? Modes
Building on What is Fine Art? Experimentation, you’ll make and document a new piece of work for the purposes of display, write a short report or short audio-visual presentation on selected aspects of the lecture programme, and a literary review.
Opportunity
For Opportunity Week, you’ll go on visits to locations, attend a range of events both course-specific and independently led, and respond to a Call Out – where creative responses are asked for around a given theme, before being presented and celebrated across campus.
The Practice Lab
For this unit you’ll have the choice to produce work across two experimental “pathways” which cover the various aspects of Fine Art, alongside a record of lectures and seminars. You’ll also prepare and produce a record of talks, lectures and seminars for the purpose of delivering a presentation during a seminar within their staff-led tutor group
Connections 1
As part of your work in establishing professional networks, you’ll prepare and deliver a personal network sketchbook on selected arts organisations, galleries, museums, biennials, triennials, festivals within their location, that are directly and indirectly involved in Fine Art creative industries.
The Practice Lab – Display
From your work in the Practice Lab unit, this is your chance to exhibit and communicate creative outputs, and work with others in the display and curation of your own and others’ work. Collaboration is encouraged to explore the interdisciplinary nature of curation and installation. You’ll put together a project proposal, and display and document a body of work for a range of audiences.
ATOM Activities
ATOM activities are small pieces of individual learning that facilitate interdisciplinary exposure across UCA, and offer a flexible, impactful learning experience. They expand your creative horizon by accessing learning topics that would not otherwise be scheduled on your course specific timetable.
PLE Digital Outcomes
The PLE Digital Outcome is a purposefully edited, self-directed record of your constructive, level 4 engagement with and presence on, digital media platforms across the year.